· Private foundation
Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Wildlife Center of Virginia | $5,000 |
| Animal Rescue Inc | $5,000 |
| Etosha Rescue and Adoption Center | $5,000 |
| BerkeleyEast Bay Humane Society | $5,000 |
| Second Chance Animal Services Inc | $5,000 |
| Womans Animal Center | $5,000 |
| Providence Animal Center | $5,000 |
| Carolina Boxer Rescue | $5,000 |
| Foster Army Animal Rescue | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BEBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +169%
- TWTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +99%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PVPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +14%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Pet rescue inc. is committed to the rescue of abandoned and abused cats and dogs, and uses funds raised to provide veterinary care, neutering and spaying services, food and a home for these animals.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
To help rescue unwanted pets
We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Defenders of Wildlife. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ARMY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAMS HOPE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BOXER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIDO INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PATH OF HOPE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds K9 YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ray Rowe Trust for Animals No Two · Pedigree Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Banfield Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · William E Dean III Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ray Rowe 1988 Tr for Animals funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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